Just 0.23 Acres Marked For Alternative Forest, Court Pulls Up Delhi Officials
NDTV
The Delhi High Court said the officials were "making a mockery of the system".
The Delhi High Court pulled up city government officials on Wednesday over the identification of land measuring "only 0.23 acres" for the creation of an alternative forest in the national capital and asked the principal secretary concerned to join the proceedings before it on the next date.
Asking whether the officials had not understood the "magnitude of the problem", Justice Jasmeet Singh, who had earlier asked the conservator of forest to take up the issue of increasing the city's green cover on a "war footing", said the court proceedings are not a "joke" and the officials are "making a mockery of the system" even when the court has been accommodating.
"Is this a joke? Only 0.23 acre you have identified... 0.23 acre is alternative forest? Show us some green cover... You are making a mockery of the system," the judge said.
